"David J Windisch" wrote in message
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Hi, all concerned:

Is this the balun problem?

For openers, a 40-meter half-wave dipole with trees and 3 dogbone
insulators, center-fed directly across the center insulator with 33 feet
of
RG-59/U coax, nothing special,

TREE--o///o--------------o///o--------------o///o--TREE
| |
coax
feeder
drooping
down
33
feet
here
to
the
shack

you know, like that ASCII sortagraphic. Like the one I put up in 1957 or
1958.

The thing has voltage loops at all ends, including the shack-end of the
coax-braid, correct?

73, Dave, N3HE


On my 40M inverted Vee, I put 4-5 turns in teh coax and a couple of
clamp on "beads" several years ago and haven't had any problems. I had just
gotten got back on the air and remember seeing both the "coil-up-your-coax"
and "bead-type" baluns, but didn't remember the specifics, so I took a shot
at it with what I call the K9DCI choke-choke balun. hi hi

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Steve N, K,9;d, c. i My email has no u's.